Wolf Hall

How much am I enjoying Wolf Hall? A LITTLE TOO MUCH. This is especially notable given how little interest I've had previously in the soap opera of the Tudor court. Turns out I just needed the right way in, which happens to be arguably the baddest baddie in a lot of bad'uns – the trick, of course, being that Wolf Hall is the sordid story told from his point of view so of course he makes himself out to be in the right, and throws in the crooked smile and warm kind eyes and kitten-fondling for good measure. Oh it's so delicious! The clues are all there but you don't see them because he's that good a lawyer! It makes my brain fizz and I love that. I can only imagine this is how people feel about Game of Thrones.

Anyway, from the first scene I thought Mark Rylance's Thomas Cromwell looked like a Jeff Turley design, so here is my somewhat hamfisted attempt at reverse-engineering one. Sorry, Jeff.

I would say 'let me talk your ear off about Wolf Hall' but my most excellent friend has already permitted me that luxury and I can't find the time to say what I want to say, so ... maybe later.

It airs in April on PBS, so keep an eye out Stateside for the sort of smart filmmaking so absent from the cinema these days ...